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$27,000 does not seem like enough money to endure 27 bee stings simultaneously.

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Seems a bit stingy.

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28 points

Movie is from 1992, so it would be 60k today. Still not enough considering what famous movie actors make.

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17 points

I’d do it every day this week

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12 points

They signed him a blank cheque. I bet he was doing everything he could to get stung.

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11 points

Dude should have asked for at least 10k/sting could have walked out with a cool $270,000 instead

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11 points

For $270,000 I will let 27 American honeybees sting me. No Africanized bees allowed!

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8 points

Dude I’d do this for 10% of that fee. Sure stings hurt, but not that much and it passes.

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2 points

That might depend on one’s pain tolerance levels, idk.

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True.

I will say it’s not worse than a tattoo and I’ve paid money to sit there for 6 hours being tattoo’d.

Not saying I’m tough, as I’m pretty soft, more that often it’s the thought that is worse than the thing.

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3 points

I think that’s on top of the regular salary

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The words of either someone immensely privileged or deathly allergic to bees.

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11 points

Has enough money to say no == immensely privileged apparently

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1 point

Yeah, if 27k won’t significantly change your situation you are privileged.

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I’m neither of those things, but I think I’m partially allergic to them. Last time I got stung by a bee in my foot, it swelled up so bad I couldn’t get a shoe on, and it was intensely painful. I have a high pain threshold, and it fucking hurt, bad. What’s weird is that I don’t have the same reaction to yellow jacket stings. Possibly because they inject less venom, but idk.

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29 points

Seems like they coulda used drones (not those drones, these drones) and no one would ever have known - and he wouldn’t have been stung.

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IDK it kinda sounds like they just fired the animal handler and gave him their $27K.

Maybe it was over a few takes or something…

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Without knowing anything about it, I’d wager that it’s generally not a good idea to mess around too much with a hive.

And picking out a bunch of drones in the amount used in film would no doubt rile up the swarm.

The way they do it is likely the best, safest and least invasive way of using live bees in a film setting.

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You could be right, but they literally shove the drones out to die when winter comes so I don’t think they value them all that highly compared to the workers which are the stinging ones.

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Most of the time I only vaguely recognize all but the biggest stars from my childhood, but god damn did that movie cement Tony Todd in my brain.

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12 points

maybe he was still in character as Kurn and took the challenge as yet another pointless Klingon pain ritual.

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kurn was the best. his outing in deep space nine was a let down, i love kurn.

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